Tag Promotions and Zen present:
Rennie Pilgrem (UK)
Saturday 02 August
Zen (17 Albert Street)
'SKIN' Album Release Tour
Tag Promotions and Zen are proud to announce the eagerly anticipated return of the Godfather of Breakbeat as we know it today, Rennie Pilgrem.
Rennie smashed it at Tag’s second ever event at a sold out show in May of 2007 so this time we thought we would make it a little bit bigger by adding the tech funk mastery of the UK’s Rob Reng and opening up another room and throwing Auckland’s finest liquid funk drum n bass night, Liquid Recreation, into the mix; ALL FOR THE ONE TICKET PRICE!
Support from:
ROB RENG (UK)
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TIM RICHARDS
DALAI
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Tickets available now from Real Groovy, Cosmic Corner or by texting PILGREM to 858 from your Vodafone mobile. Email sarah@tagpromotions.co.nz for group discounts and earlybird tickets!
RENNIE PILGREM (UK)
Son of a jazz trumpeter, Rennie started life playing tenor saxophone and sitting with his Father’s various bands around Southern England. Later he formed various funk bands playing sax and keyboards.. After making rudimentary House music on the wrong kind of drum machines with soon to be Rhythm Section members Ellis Dee, Richard Thake and Nick ‘Newton Scott, they had interest from (amongst others) the new British house label Guerrilla. Preferring to release their own material they formed Rhythm Section Recordings and became part of the wave of breakbeat house that went on to become known as Hardcore in the early ‘90’s. Their third release ‘Comin’ On Strong’ was so huge it stayed in the Dance Charts for 2 years. Rhythm Section played at pretty much every main party between ’90-92’ on the same bill as The Prodigy, Moby, Altern 8, Shades Of Rhythm and Bizzare Inc.
In 1993 Rennie founded Thursday Club Recordings (TCR) as a medium for putting out his own material. Recording now as ‘Thursday Club’ he had a big tune with ‘Thursday Theme’ which was chased by Virgin. His Next release 'A Place Called Acid' (1995) was one of the biggest breakbeat tunes around and resulted in him being offered gigs around the World.
1996 set up legendary London night 'Friction' with Adam Freeland, Tayo and Ian Williams. He also coined the term 'Nu Skool' along with his fellow Friction partners as a way of describing their music. He's released records on Whole9yards, City Of Angels, Chrysalis/EMI, Mob and China Records to name but a few. He's collaborated with many top producers including legend Arthur Baker,BLIM (Breakpoll Best Single ‘2Freaks’) He continues to DJ all over the world and wow audiences with his dancefloor-friendly funk-infused breaks sets. He has held residencies in Rome and London (at his own HUM night and now STIR). He is also part of the team responsible for the ‘Breaksday’ concept – which has had parties in Miami, London and The Glade Festival. He has been voted ‘Most Valuable/Influential Person’ at The International Breaks Awards four years running and also also picked up awards for Best Single (2Freaks) and Best Remix for the huge Emit/Collect by DJ Zero.
2004 Rennie released a mix album on Perfecto ‘Perfecto Breaks’ which was the first mix album ever to utilise Ableton Live. Rennie was recently asked to do another track for Sony’s next Wipeout Pure PSP game. He has written music for a couple of commercials and scored the Theme Music for The Football Factory. His label TCR currently has the biggest Catalogue of Breakbeat tracks in the World and last year passed its 100th 12†Release.
2005 Rennie formed ‘Rennie Pilgrem & The TCR Allstars as a Live project. 15 gigs later including Glastonbury and The Glade Festival they have been included amongst the ‘20 Best Live acts to see’ in IDJ Magazine. Amongst all this Rennie somehow finds the time to write reviews for IDJ Magazine (coincidence) and Big Shot Magazine in the USA.
2007 Rennie has a weekly Breaks Show on Galaxy Digital. He is currently putting the finishing touches to his 3rd Studio Album which will feature some Live Recordings made with members of The TCR Allstars. He is part of Stir which takes over renowned night club Heaven in London as an ‘indoor Glade’ concept in which Breaks rubs shoulders with Psy-Trance and other genres of dance music
He has just released ‘Live At The Cavern’ a Mix album recorded Live in Exeter at the UK’s longest running Breaks night. Featuring Rennie on Live Keyboards and mixing this is the first of its kind and has received huge critical acclaim. He is about to release a new single on TCR ‘Dutty Work / Clobber’ which looks set to achieve the same success as Eraser did earlier this year – already earning ‘Single of the Month’ titles in both DJ mag and iDJ magazine and receiving plays from Pete Tongs show on Radio 1 amongst many others.
New Album: SKIN
Pilgrem Breaks the mould by making an album you can buy with your mobile for less than the price of a drink...
‘Skin’ - Rennie Pilgrem’s third artist album is going to be sold via clubs via an SMS code that will enable gig goers to download the album for a mere £3. The price will then be added to their phone bill, no need for a creditcard! 12 tracks of mainly dance floor heaven lean heavily towards the live sound he has been perfecting with his Band ‘The TCR Allstars’. After only 2 years and only a handful of gigs they have joined the ranks of such luminaries as The Chemical Brothers, The Bays, Pendulum as one of the ‘20 best live electronic acts to see’ in iDJ magazine.
Says the man they call ‘The Godfather’;
‘There are four things I want from a track whether I am djing it or making it. Great beats, fat bass, hooks and the funk’. For ‘Skin’ Pilgrem has again collaborated friends like BLIM, Uberzone, Arthur Baker & Chickaboo but this time on some tracks he has augmented his keyboard skills with live drums, bass and guitar and a Seven piece horn section.
Contributing vocals are from Ruth from NZ band Minuit, Rapper Mc Manic, ever popular Chickaboo, the mysterious Bella Saer and Larry ‘Mr Sopranos’ Love from Alabama 3. But that doesn’t mean that Pilgrem has gone soft and deserted his club roots, far from it. There are enough ‘bangers’ on here to keep the most ‘munted’ clubber more than happy. Including recent big tune ‘Drumma’ plus Eraser and several brand new underground bass invaders.
Since his last Album Pilgremage, Rennie has djed around the World 3 times, written several pieces of music for video games and some ads. He’s produced his own weekly radio Show on Galaxy and co-run the Breaksday Tent at The Glade Festival and its spin-off little brother STIR.
Skin will be supported by a UK and World Tour including Europe, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada and China amongst others.
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